Before we are moving all of our belongings into a new home, it is time to make sure that everything in our removal plan is doing as it should be.
You may have had a list of repairs you planned to do at the new home, check it, because empty house let you repair or renovate anything you plan to do. So, before you move to new home, it will the best time to make renovation. After renovation, it is time to order a removal company to move our belonging to a new home.
Before you will hire professionals, let’s take some time to go around with a notepad and check all around to make a final list, what you have to renovation. After that will time to prepare final checklist, what you have to do in old house and in new house.
I will give you a few suggestions what you should pay attention. Take a look at the following checklist and ensure you’ve taken care of everything to make your removals no stress action.
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· Take a look at the following checklist and ensure you’ve taken care of everything to make your removals no stress action.
· Have you arranged new utilities, like electric, gas and phone for your new home?
· Have you taken final meter readings and phoned them to providers? If you are not phoned to them in the last day at old home, it means you must call them in on the first day to ask the utilities are open and give last final meters from old home.
· Check and note, have you informed your bank, mobile phone provider and any other companies who regularly bill you that from next day you will have a new address.
· Do you regularly contract a window’s cleaner, milk delivery, maid service or other third party service, check please, do you need to cancel them or give them your new address?
· Have you arranged a mail redirect? If not, it is important to go to the post office and give them your new address.
· Have you turned off the gas, water and electricity, using main switch.
· Have you stopped all utilities, and informed local authorities of your move so that they can adjust your final bill and forwarded to your new address?
· In last day look around at the old house and check everything packed, removed, binned or accounted for?
· If you are leaving some furniture in an old home, have you check that there’s nothing in or behind them.
· If you leave some rubbish or not useful appliance, your duty is to remove them and in the best way will do it for you a local house clearance company. So, don’t forget to hire a house clearance company to your old home.
· If you paid deposit to cover something in the old home, now will the time to get it back. So, make sure that everything is prepared correctly to show to landlord.
· Is everything packed and marked well to find in the new home?
· Check, have you paid deposit for your new house, if required?
· Check, have you clearly marked out any repairs required within your old house?
· Have you left any manuals for appliances you’re leaving behind? Check and give that instructions for new tenants.
· Have you transferred address details for documents like your driving licence, visa, passport or work permit to your new address? Do it as soon as possible.
Once you’ve ensured you’ve prepared of everything, you can wait to workers from the removals company and together with them move on to your new house.
